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TOLLETT, WARDEN v. HENDERSON

Term: 1972
Important Dates
Argued: February 20, 1973
Decided: April 17, 1973
Outcome
Reversed and remanded
Vote
6-3
Majority
Harry Blackmun • Warren Burger • Lewis Powell • William Rehnquist • Potter Stewart • Byron White
Dissenting
William Brennan • William Douglas • Thurgood Marshall

TOLLETT, WARDEN v. HENDERSON is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 17, 1973. The case was argued before the court on February 20, 1973.

In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the ruling of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with the Court's opinion. The case originated from the Tennessee Middle U.S. District Court.

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About the case

Subject matter: Criminal Procedure - Plea bargaining: the constitutionality of and/or the circumstances of its exercise
Petitioner: State
Petitioner state: Tennessee
Respondent type: Person convicted of crime
Respondent state: Unknown
Citation: 411 U.S. 258
How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
Who was the chief justice: Warren Burger
Who wrote the majority opinion: William Rehnquist

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as conservative.

See also

External links

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Footnotes

↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024

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